• catloaf
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    Running those datacenters is extremely expensive.

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      The cost is to the whole world, because they consume enormous amounts of energy and produce essentially nothing. Like bitcoin miners.

      • TheDoctor [they/them]@hexbear.net
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        Worse than Bitcoin miners, AI seems to have the wholethroated support of capital (rather than a single faction), who see it as the next big form of automation